Sentences with phrase «such film opening»

One such film opening in Kansas City this week, is Battle of the Sexes from Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the team behind the smash hit, Little Miss Sunshine.

Not exact matches

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

A lesser film would have opened by loading her with backstory about her royal heritage, her home planet and her ties to the Rebel Alliance (in fact, the lesser prequels committed just such errors with their own characters.)

A new movie filmed in Dutchess and Ulster counties, and featuring such actresses as Whoopi Goldberg and Tessa Thompson, will open in theaters March 16.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a way to reduce the coercivity of nickel ferrite (NFO) thin films by as much as 80 percent by patterning the surface of the material, opening the door to more energy efficient high - frequency electronics, such as sensors, microwave devices and antennas.

TV shows such as MTVs True Life: Im Going to Fat Camp — filmed at Camp Shane in Ferndale, N.Y., which opened its doors in 1968 — helped bring weight - loss programs for kids and teens into the spotlight.

It's teamed up with photographers (Ellen von Unwerth, David LaChapelle), designers (Karen Walker, Giles Deacon), DJs (Miike Snow, Steve Aoki), retailers (Opening Ceremony, Barneys New York) and dozens of others — some on product alone and others on mixed - media projects, such as the short film «Sin City»'s Robert Rodriguez produced to accompany his collaboration.

Rather than being bound by restaurant opening times, film showing or such restrictions, online dating is more forgiving to such obstacles.

Already a familiar face in world cinema thanks to fine performances in such films as Open Your Eyes and Talk to Her, Spanish actor Fele Martínez teetered on the brink of international success in the wake of work for such internationally recognized directors as Alejandro Amenábar and Pedro Almodóvar.

The opening sequences are among the best ever filmed treating the sheer terror and adrenaline rush of an out - and - out chase, and are nearly silent the whole time, such is the high action quotient.

One wonders how many pairs of such glasses will be available after the film's huge opening days.

From pre-production to final cut, Jarecki follows the existential - minded director through the entire process of making a movie as Toback opens up to the camera to discuss a variety of deeply personal matters and explore just how they have manifested themselves in such films as Love and Money, The Big Bang, and Black and White.

In throwing us off so cleanly in its opening section, the film amply demonstrates how the familiar trademarks of westerns are not restricted or confined by geography, any more than the ideas which such films attempt to address.

(Because Let the Sunshine In is such a sensually pleasurable movie it is easy to overlook the fact that the actual on - screen lovemaking is always going awry — the film opens with a clumsy coupling between Isabelle and a rutting Vincent.)

Our goal is to deliver authentic prop replicas that will help fans relive the thrills of their favorite films, while building excitement for upcoming theatrical releases, such as Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opening on June 22.»

In any given year, Grauman's Chinese Theatre hosts over 40 red carpet film premieres and since it opened, it has hosted three Academy Award (R) ceremonies and numerous world premieres, including those for internationally - acclaimed film franchises, such as Star Wars and Harry Potter.

By that point, the film was almost a decade old (I wasn't even born when it opened in June 1988), part of the Golden Age of Murphy's Hollywood career that included works such as 48 Hrs., Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop.

It ain't easy taking a popular cult film and adapting it into a successful TV series (emphasis on successful), but the advent of alternative digital platforms such as Netflix and Hulu are opening up more possibilities.

The screenwriter and Howard do let Lauda and Hunt's marriages slip by with minimal coverage, and the film opens with unnecessary narration and wraps up with obvious dialogue, but Morgan makes up for such issues with his precision in detailing the central relationship.

In this series of interviews, the actors - alongside director Rian Johnson - open up about their roles in this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved world.

His flair for comedy was well represented in such films as Road to Morocco (1942), in which he played the blithering idiot in the opening bazaar scene, and his many appearances with the Three Stooges.

But such behaviours soon invite the unwanted attention and scorn of their so - called friends and neighbours.As soon as this film opens, you are instantly struck by Elmer Bernstein's evocative score and a colourful palette that just radiates from the screen.

One wonders where the film could go from such a tremendous opening and the answer is a powerful one: it goes small.

It was the very first film of Venice, and the festival seemed to open on such a high that the worry was that everything else over the next ten days would end up paling in comparison.

We get the usual globe - trotting and fights and chases (The film's James Bond-esque opening credits prepare us for such things).

Those with an open mind, however, will find an intriguing example of a film that mixed genres before such a thing was readily acceptable.

In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.

Such shots are frequently celebrated in film — think of Martin Scorsese's use of tracking shots over the years, or the self - parodying opening of Robert Altman's The Player — but critics rarely call attention to them on TV, perhaps because TV is more of a writers» medium, or perhaps because they're simply not as showy as others, often blending into the background.

Supporting Actor In the wake of openings of films such as Beginners and Drive, critics sang the praises of veteran actors Christopher Plummer and Albert...

This time he alludes to the art - cinema context much more directly by opening with music from Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim and evoking the form of that film with offscreen narration (delivered by Baumbach himself) recounting the story in past tense and with old - fashioned devices such as irises and wipes and French New Wave devices such as fantasy inserts, fleeting flashbacks, freeze - frames, and jump cuts.

«So in some ways, I wanted to make this film... to somehow try to embrace it and tame it, master it, but also to make it mine, as such... So I went into researching slavery as such with open eyes.

This becomes the film's central focus, but side threads open and continue, such as Ryan's efforts to hit on a barely legal family friend (Regine Nehy) and Uncle Russell's toilet troubles.

But if Aronofsky's film is unambiguously pessimistic about the ill - fated outcome of such partnerships, Phantom Thread subtly opens up possibilities for taming the beast.

The nitwit at Summit Entertainment who thought this was such a terrible film that critics should not be allowed to see it until it opened on Christmas should go into another line of work.

It will be a pleasure to open this year's Festival with such an accomplished film from one of international cinema's finest film makers.

Opening in 1760, the film quickly dispatches with the tortured mythology of the Collins family, which left for the New World and established itself on a Maine seaport, where it staked such a claim in the seafood business that the town was named Collinsport.

While the best horror films have mined anonymous rural landscapes for maximum disturbing impact for over four decades now, including greats such as The Hills Have Eyes (1977), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and, to a lesser extent, Nightmare Circus (1974), Downrange places its carefree young ones in a vast open space facing unknown terror but the stakes never feel like much beyond an exercise in style.

In fact, only two prequels have ever notched such an opening: Minions and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (which many thought would be the last Star Wars film ever).

The film opens with her mother's funeral, an initially anxiety - inducing event that soon allows Doris to embrace new opportunities, aided by a talk given by a self - help guru (Peter Gallagher in a cameo, offering such cheesy advice as reading «impossible» as «I'm possible»).

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

In addition to the animated features such as «Atlantis» and «Shrek,» there have been three live - action films: «Spy Kids,» which opened in March and is still hanging around; «Dr. Dolittle 2,» and now «Cats and Dogs.»

Though she appeared on TV and in such films as 1973's «The Mack» and was involved in theater in L.A., the nomination didn't open many doors.

How could such a pipsqueak of a director, they asked back in 1997, create a masterpiece that wowed right from its opening sequence: an audacious five - minute tracking shot that swoops and swirls through the nightclub of the film's title in joyful synchronisation to the dance music of the 1970s.

Second, unless Disney has its own army, there will be no such security at the more than 3 500 theaters where the film is scheduled to open.

I've wanted to pull the plug that sustains the dumb Hollywood action vehicle for most of my lifetime; seeing such films replicated isn't funny to me — it's just tearing open old wounds.

Based on a D. H. Lawrence novel of living free in a changing Britain and how that plays out sexually in such a suppressed society, we start with two good friends (Glenda Jackson and Jennie Lindon), a rougher contact in high society (Oliver Reed) and more open, freewheeling friend (Alan Bates) examining the slowly blooming new freedoms, their connection to nature, each other and what that portends for the future in this lush, warm, personal film that holds up extremely well today and has some of the best work of all involved.

Note the detail in the opening beach scene which is such an essential mood setter for the entire film.

Some of the film's opening sequences, such as the way the T - 800 goes about getting clothes and wheels, feel like more elaborate but not necessarily more involving versions of scenes from the first film.

Thankfully, I am in Chicago now so films that otherwise would not have opened up in Kentucky until after the new year starts have been seen such as Hidden Figures.

There's little doubt that The X Files has been designed to appeal primarily to hardcore fans of the now - defunct TV series, although - to the credit of screenwriter Chris Carter - the film has been opened up in such a way as even the most clueless neophyte should be able to follow along comfortably.